Object
Local Plan Review: Preferred Approach 2016-2035
Representation ID: 1669
Received: 07/02/2019
Respondent: Chichester BID
Cultural anchors could replace retail earlier than we think. There is over-stock of brick and mortar shopping.
It may well be that bricks and mortar retail loses its attraction as a reason prior to 2026 for visiting the City. Consideration should be given to building/licensing a cultural, leisure and/or entertainment hotspots at the extremity of each shopping zone such particularly at the at Southern Gateway site. The policy may have to view cultural plant as fulfilling the role the old anchor store concept did before, with the Chichester Cinema at the Eastgate, the Cathedral/Novium complex at the East, and the CFT at the North. The obvious missing art form would be for a multipurpose space which should include provision for music and dance to complete the city's offer.